I am also atheist or agnostic (I don’t even know the difference). I’ve never been to church and prefer to think for myself.
I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.
Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window
In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company.
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn’t thought of before and that aren’t talked about in the news all the time.
If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
It would be nice to design a real briefcase – you open it up and it’s your computer but it also stores your books.
Steve Jobs didn’t really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don’t deny that.
When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.